Theodore F. Payne House
- Architect
- William and Alexander Curlett
- Year
- 1881
- Style
- Stick Style
- City
- San Francisco, CA
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The Theodore F. Payne House is an 1881 Victorian mansion in Lower Pacific Heights, designed by William Curlett for Theodore Fryatt Payne, whose father had made a fortune in the Gold Rush. It is one of the last surviving upper-class houses built on Sutter Street before the 1906 earthquake and fire, blending Stick, Eastlake, and Queen Anne detailing.
the building
Turret and Tiffany glass. The house has an open octagonal 'candle-snuffer' turret, numerous bay windows, and interiors with Tiffany stained-glass windows; it originally had a porte cochère, since removed. It was also built with then-modern conveniences including heating and indoor hot and cold running water.
the style
Curlett blended Stick, Eastlake, and Queen Anne elements into the house's Victorian design, typical of San Francisco's upper-class residential architecture just before the 1906 disaster.
More on Stick Stylesignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, the house survived the 1906 earthquake and has since been adapted to hold a hotel and restaurant.
nearby
- Tobin House
- Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption
- Bush Street Temple
- Atherton House
- C. A. Belden House
- Japan Center (San Francisco)